April 2009 - Posts

ITFC's Marcus Evans: Simon Clegg, me and Roy Keane.

IPSWICH Town fans will learn, in coming months and years, just how lucky they are to have one Mr Marcus Evans as the owner of their club. I met Marcus for a catch-up this week - and whilst the terms of our relationship mean that the meeting wasn't an...
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Amazing Roy Keane roadshow at ITFC!

There was no room in the Media Centre as Roy Keane came to Town ... bristling with all the hunger and drive and fear-***-magnetism factor of a football manager re-born. Every camera position had been taken and every chair was being used. The room...
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ITFC: So thrilled at Tractor Roy Keane!

ON Your marks, get set, and you're off .... it's the Roy Keane Rollercoaster ride at Ipswich Town ... and I'm so looking forward to it. New Town Boss Roy swept in to Town late last night - and straight into a battle-planning meal with new chief executive...
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Marcus wields his ITFC axe

RUTHLESS Marcus Evans continued to cut a swathe through the Ipswich Town hierarchy today - as manager Jim Magilton was ditched for the club's dismal Championship performances this season. Let's get one thing underscored in rich ITFC blue - mystery...
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Marcus Evans, his dream man - and the ITFC Blueprint, Part One!

A warm welcome today to new Ipswich Town boss Simon Clegg. Clegg, a  former British Olympic Association chief executive, 49, was paraded to the media at a Portman Road press conference - and then got straight to work. His mission - to construct...
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ITFC: Ipswich owner Marcus fixes Blueprint.

On April 7 this year I wrote in this blog that it was decision time for Marcus Evans -  I was certain it was crunch time ... as our mystery magnate decided on the future of the Super Blues. Yesterday, in that Sunny Delight of a day for...
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Jitters at the bar in Jim's Last Chance Saloon

Here is my Ipswich Town epistle for Week 16 - after the most depressing season I have had the misfortune to be part in the last two decades. I'm looking forward to the derby match at Portman Road on Sunday - and, with respect to our chirpy friends...
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ITFC: Sheepy to dip out of Town?

IPSWICH Town boss Derek Bowden is leaving the club - but what of figurehead-only chairman, the charismatic David Sheepshanks? As owner Marcus Evans sweeps in a new era, accelerated by the fact that big-spending manager Jim Magilton's Town have floundered...
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ITFC: Quitting boss Derek a real gentleman

OUTGOING Ipswich Town chief executive Derek Bowden is both a gentleman - and a gentle man. He's also got huge administrative and financial talents - which is why his departure from Portman Road, revealed today by The Evening Star, will shock many...
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ITFC: Big decision time for Marcus at Portman Road

BIG question on Ipswich Town fans' lips today is: Will Jim Magilton be in the ITFC hotseat next season? And that is certainly the poser causing lots of restless nights for owner Marcus Evans as the end of the 2008/9 season looms. For despite all the...
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